Weekend Roundup

– The group Patients Against New Approach Washington sent the New Approach Washington campaign a letter outlining their concerns over the DUI provisions in Initiative 502. Earlier this week, I discussed why these limits aren’t just unscientific, but could lead to unnecessarily overburdening a system that’s already not very good at keeping dangerous drivers off the roads.

– The RAND Corporation released a study from Los Angeles that showed that when medical marijuana dispensaries are closed, the amount of crime in the immediate area increases. The study looked at the 10 day windows before and after Los Angeles shut down over 70% of its dispensaries. They found that crime around the closed dispensaries was 60% greater than around the dispensaries that continued to operate. This is just another reminder that anyone who calls medical marijuana dispensaries “magnets for crime” is either unaware of how magnets work, or is completely full of shit.

Two Tacoma cops were convicted of perjury yesterday. I haven’t paid much attention to the case, but from what I’ve heard it sounded more like a technical thing than anything truly evil.

A Pierce County jury on Friday convicted two sheriff’s deputies of pejuring themselves during a court hearing last year. The verdict reduced one of the deputies – Jeff Montgomery – to tears and drew gasps from supporters of the two men. One juror also wiped at tears as Superior Court Judge John Hickman read the verdict forms just before 3 p.m. Jurors later told attorneys in the case they were convinced of the men’s guilt but found deliberations emotionally draining.

An Issaquah high school football game was interrupted this afternoon when armed cops swarmed the field and hustled players, coaches, and spectators under bleachers while a SWAT team surrounded, and then killed, a crazy man firing a rifle and handgun. Fortunately, nobody was killed except the shooter. This obviously could have been real bad — a deranged gunman with a high-powered bolt-action rifle and a handgun in a crowded high school football stadium …

But hey, Wisconsin GOP legislators think anyone should be able to get a gun without a background check and carry it anywhere without a permit, including high school stadiums.

Hey, if Republicans can have guns, then so can I, and believe, I do — so if that Breitbart guy wants to start a civil war, then let it begin at my burrow, after dark, over by the big tree on the east side of the park … heh, just kidding, wingnut joke! Everyone knows we liberals won’t defend ourselves, we’ll just let the wingnuts mow us down, like the Nazis did to the Jews, gypsies, and socialists.

@14 Pretty much. There was this loud-mouthed, far right, Mil. blogger Bill something or other that lived a little south of Spokane that just loved to talk about right and wrong and all this moral crap. Well, it turns out that good old Bill was fooling around on his wife. You could pretty much tell when he’d been “out on the town” cause the next day he’d post some longwinded blather about right and wrong and how the liberals are evil. I guess us liberals forced him to cheat on his wife.

Last I heard his wife had left him & he’d married the other woman. He seems to have taken his blog down.

“In the face of years of scientific findings and growing impacts, the doubters persist.

“They ignore long-term trends and seize on insignificant year-to-year blips in data to claim all is well. They focus on minor mistakes in thousands of pages of peer-reviewed studies to claim all is wrong. And they carom from one explanation to another for today’s warming Earth: jet contrails, sunspots, cosmic rays, natural cycles.

“‘Ninety-eight percent of the world’s climate scientists say it’s for real, and yet you still have deniers,’ observed former U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, a New York Republican who chaired the House’s science committee.”

Yeah, and one of those deniers is our friend puddydope, who must be getting paid by somebody to pollute HA’s comment threads with some of the most senseless tripe every posted anywhere.

Recently our friend puddydope posted a comment about a federal scientist being investigated for allegedly faking a report of drowned polar bears. This, puddydope believes, proves anthropomorphic climate change is a hoax. So this must mean all the satellites photos of shrinking glaciers and icecaps were photoshopped. Yup, them evul scientists are out to hoodwink us all into believing in climate changes so we’ll stop driving our cars, because they want the streets to ride their bicycles on.

Prior to The Night Of The Long Knives there were socialists in the Nazi Party. After the Night Of The Long Knives all the socialist were either dead or in hiding. Mr. Krupp and a couple other rich industrialists who were bankrolling the Nazi’s didn’t like the socialists and said they were going to stop funding the Nazi’s if good old Adolph couldn’t make them disappear.

1 killed, 8 hurt in shooting at South L.A. party A man at the party described the scene as ‘chaos,’ saying, ‘People were panicking, running, dropping to the floor.… All the fences were toppled.’http://www.latimes.com/news/lo.....0843.story

A football player at Division II Central State University of Wilberforce, Ohio, died after being shot at a Dayton, Ohio, nightclub, and an arrest warrant has been issued for the man suspected of shooting into the club, killing the player and wounding another student, authorities said Friday. Kordero Hunter, 21, of South Holland, Ill., in suburban Chicago, died at a hospital Friday morning of a gunshot wound to the abdomen, said Ken Betz, director of the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office in Dayton, in southwest Ohio. Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/.....z1YvdNomr5

Quincy Shooting Leaves One Dead, Shooter Still Missing Posted: 11:31 am PDT September 24, 2011 Updated: 6:35 pm PDT September 24, 2011 QUINCY – Wash. — Quincy Police are looking for an alleged suspect in a shooting that killed one person Friday night. The Grant county Coroner confirms 40 year-old Quincy resident Ramiro Munoz, Jr. was the man killed in the incident. The shooting happened at the 100 block of First Ave NE in Quincy, Wash. at around 11:20 p.m.. When responders arrived to the scene, they found Ramiro dead from apparent gunshot wounds. Detectives believe the shooting happened after Ramiro and another man got into an argument. Detectives also believe Ramiro used to be part of a gang. The shooter is still missing, and is believed to be with two other people who are also considered suspects at this time.

Published September 24, 2011, 01:30 PM Shooting outside Golden Valley still under investigation Minnesota News — Authorities are still investigating the officer-involved shooting on Interstate 394 in Minnetonka that left a woman dead Thursday. SendPrint

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – Authorities are still investigating the officer-involved shooting on Interstate 394 in Minnetonka that left a woman dead Thursday.

The freeway was closed for five hours after an officer shot the suspect who reportedly had a handgun. Cori O’Gara of Maple Plain says traffic started to slow and someone was yelling “go, go” and “down, down” and then she heard some loud pops.

Authorities tell us eight people have been shot and some may have been children at a gathering in Oak Park.

The crowd had gathered from the Trenholm Court Community nearby, but not all were residents of the complex.

Another shooting at 1225 Tatum Street was in relation to the shooting at Oak Park.

Details are limited at this time, but stay with WSFA 12 News for more details as they develop.

Double Shooting In the Bronx, 1 Man Dead Updated: Saturday, 24 Sep 2011, 7:38 PM EDT Published : Saturday, 24 Sep 2011, 7:38 PM EDT GLENN WILBURN | MyFoxNY.com MYFOXNY.COM – Police say one man was killed and another injured when they were shot early Saturday morning in the Bronx. According to police, they responded to a call of a shooting at the intersection of Cedar Avenue and Sedgwick Avenue in the Morris Heights section. Police found two men with gunshot wounds. The first victim, a 20-year old man was shot in the torso and the second victim, a 56-year old man was shot in the arm.

An analysis of educational attainment among foreign-born adults in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas reveals that: n The share of working-age immigrants in the United States who have a bachelor’s degree has risen considerably since 1980, and now exceeds the share without a high school diploma. In 1980, just 19 percent of immigrants aged 25 to 64 held a bachelor’s degree, and nearly 40 percent had not completed high school. By 2010, 30 percent of working-age immigrants had at least a college degree and 28 percent lacked a high school diploma. n Forty-four (44) of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas are high-skill immigrant destinations, in which college-educated immigrants outnumber immigrants without high school diplomas by at least 25 percent. These destinations include large coastal metro areas like San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The 30 low-skill destinations, in which the relative sizes of these immigrant skill groups are reversed, include many in the border states of the West and Southwest, as well as in the Great Plains. n Immigrants’ skill levels vary by metropolitan area due to historical settlement patterns and economic structures. In former immigration destinations, or “gateways,” with low levels of contemporary immigration such as Detroit, and re-emerging gateways such as Philadelphia, immigrants have high levels of educational attainment. In established post-World War II immigration gateways such as Houston, and minor-continuous gateways along the U.S.-Mexico border and in interior California, low-skilled immigrants predominate.http://www.brookings.edu/~/med.....singer.pdf

Just got my NRA magazine the other day – “The American Rifleman.” Had a little story about a petite litle lady blowing away some guy who was just about to kill her. Cops ruled it a suicide – the criminal picked the wrong lady to attack and attempt to murder.

@30 Little old ladies don’t seem to be the problem. How often do you read in the papers about a little old lady rampaging through a high school or IHOP? If we take guns away from angry white men, that’ll solve 97% of the problem.

Obama’s problem is he’s trying to negotiate with people who have non-negotiable demands. To illustrate why Obama’s presidency is falling apart, let’s pretend that Obama and Boehner are two lawyers trying to settle an accident case:

OBAMA: My client suffered serious injuries because of your client’s negligence and needs $100,000 for her medical expenses and loss of earnings.

BOEHNER: The insurance company I represent, without conceding any fault by their insured, has authorized me to settle for $500 in the interest of avoiding litigation.

OBAMA: Look, why don’t we split the baby and settle for $50,000?

BOEHNER: I can go $500.

OBAMA: Okay, now that we’re down to $50,000, how about if we split the baby again and settle for $25,000?

BOEHNER: We’ll pay $500.

OBAMA: $12,500?

BOEHNER: $500.

OBAMA: Okay, I’ll take the $500.

Now, what kind of lawyer is that? If you were hurt in an accident and the other driver was blatantly at fault, would you want a lawyer like this representing you? Or you would feel motivated to fire him and get somebody who will do a better job of protecting your interests? If you read the article I linked to above, what you will see — over and over — is people who supported Obama in 2008 complaining that he has been too conciliatory toward Republicans who take every concession Obama offers them and give him nothing in return.

That isn’t negotiating, it’s rolling over, and when Obama started signaling that he would make concessions on core entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare to Republicans who were presenting those concessions as non-negotiable demands and clearly signaliing they would give nothing in return, millions of grassroots Democratic voters began to feel their vital interests are in grave danger because there is no leader in charge of their party.

As bad as things are, they’re about to get worse. A European recession is certain, and it’ll drag down U.S. banks exposed to European debt and American corporations selling to European markets. Here, in a nutshell, is how Europe is unraveling:

“Two years after the world emerged from the worst financial collapse since the 1930s, a repeat is looming. European Union officials have been unable to forge a political consensus among the union’s 17 members to head off a debt default by Greece. Some of Europe’s banks won’t have the capital to withstand the expected losses on their holdings of Greek debt. …

“Though they’ve cobbled together a fund to backstop Greece’s $500 billion debt, it’s not enough to cope with a possible default four times as big by Italy, which is in the early stages of the downward spiral that sank Greece. ‘Greece is gone, the markets know that,’ Allen Sinai, chief economist at Decision Economics. ‘We’re now looking at … the potential for Italy going.’ …

“Sean Egan, an analyst following the debt crisis at Egan-Jones Ratings Co., told CNBC [e]ven … it’s more than the stronger European countries can manage. ‘Germany, which is held up normally as a savior, has total debt in the area of 1.5 trillion euros ($2 trillion),’ he said. ‘It’s unlikely they’re going to be willing to double their debt to bail out the periphery countries. That is the basic problem.’ …

“Compared to their European counterparts, U.S. banks are relatively well capitalized to withstand another financial crisis. And despite recent attacks by Republican members of congress and presidential candidates, the Federal Reserve remains … ready to backstop the U.S. financial system if another meltdown were to happen. American companies, having paid down debts and raised mountains of cash since the Panic of 2008, are also better positioned to weather another financial shock.

“But with a housing market mired in a four-year recession, unemployment at 9.1 percent and governments around the world slashing spending, the global economy would enter a new recession in much worse shape than when the last one hit in 2007.”

Roger Rabbit Commentary: Here’s an example of how Europe is affecting a U.S. company. You’ve heard of Aflac, the insurance company that runs the duck commercials, right? Aflac was almost completely protected from the Great Recession because it does three-fourths of its business in Japan. But Aflac’s investment portfolio is top-heavy with vulnerable European bonds. Aflac is writing off nearly $1 billion of those investments this year, and is expected to lose another $1.2 billion in Europe next year. (If you’re wondering why Aflac’s stock is so cheap right now, that’s why.) And Aflac’s situation isn’t unique. Europe now faces defaults that could total in the trillions, bank runs and bank collapses, the breakup of the European Union, and the collapse of the euro currency. And politically hamstrung governments throughout the world, including ours, are nearly powerless to stop it — even though it could be stopped by timely action.

I don’t know what possessed Obama to think he could negotiate with a political party whose supporters hope this is the end times, would welcome the death of civilization, and are looking forward to a mass rapture of souls to the afterlife. How the fuck do you negotiate with suicidal maniacs? A rational leader would put the SWAT team and Delta Force on standby before trying to talk the GOP into putting down their bombs and stepping back.

Roger Rabbit Commentary: So, if you need a job, pack up your camper and head for Vail to apply for a ski-lift operator job at $6.50 an hour. Ooops, there are already 10 million applicants in line ahead of you!

Roger Rabbit Commentary: We all know guns don’t kill people — it’s homicidal maniacs holding guns and pulling triggers that kills people! We obviously shouldn’t let homicidal maniacs get guns. But Wisconsin’s GOP legislators think anyone should be able to get a gun without a background check, and anyone should be able to carry a gun anywhere without a permit. Why would anyone vote for those asswipes?

SPOKANE — Authorities say a fire broke out in the Garland District in Spokane just before 9:00 p.m. Sunday night. The fire quickly spread to nearby restaurants of the Milk Bottle and Ferguson’s Cafe. Crews are on the scene. Watch KREM 2 News at 11:00 for the latest details.http://www.krem.com/news/Massi.....44208.html

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Puddybud, who read how the arschloch "I live off the net" all dayspews:

Puddy Commentary: We all know guns don’t kill people — it’s homicidal maniacs holding guns and pulling triggers that kills people! We obviously shouldn’t let homicidal maniacs get guns. But California’s DUMMOCRAPTIC legislators think anyone should be able to get a gun without a background check, and anyone should be able to carry a gun anywhere without a permit. Look at all those killings in California cities since DUMMOCRAPTS run the CA Legislature. Why would anyone vote for those ASSwipes?

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Puddybud, who read how the arschloch "I live off the net" all dayspews:

Nearly half of the federal government’s firefighting air tankers are siting idle at a California airport, grounded by the Obama administration in a contract dispute just weeks before wildfires swept through Texas killing a mother and her child, and destroying 100,000 acres.

PuddyCommentary: It’s always create a crisis then use it for political hay with DUMMOCRAPTS

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Puddybud, who read how the arschloch "I live off the net" all dayspews:

@46 How predictable…though I suppose a piece of code should be predictable.

What the ‘Pud’ algorithm refers to is police brutality, which ‘he’ appears to celebrate and use to jeer at people he finds ‘other’, like the simpleton ‘he’ is.

Peaceful protesters in NYC, gathering Wall Street to highlight the gulf between the rich Masters of the Universe and the rest of us, particularly those without jobs/homes/hope/food, were rounded up in a confined space and were assaulted by cops with pepper spray.

Per pudiot’s own link:

…march against social inequality turned violent.

Witnesses said they saw three stunned women collapse on the ground screaming after they were sprayed in the face.

…uniformed officers had corralled the women using orange nets when two supervisors made a beeline for the women, and at least one suddenly sprayed the women before turning and quickly walking away.

Brownshirts in action. And this is what pudiot celebrates – what a fucktard.

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